Despite on-going debate about credibility, and reported limitations in comparison to other
approaches, case study is an increasingly popular approach among qualitative researchers …

Background With the development of digital pathology and the renewal of deep learning
algorithm, artificial intelligence (AI) is widely applied in tumor pathology. Previous …

This highly practical book introduces the whole range of grounded theory approaches,
providing a comprehensive description of the strategies and techniques employed in this …

The controversies surrounding the evidence-based research movement are reviewed from a
critical pedagogy framework. Standards for assessing quality are forms of interpretive …

This collection of recent works by Norman K. Denzin provides a history of the field of
qualitative inquiry over the past two decades. As perhaps the leading proponent of this style …

Background Researchers turn to citation tracking to find the most influential articles for a
particular topic and to see how often their own published papers are cited. For years …

A review of Garfield's journal impact factor and its specific implementation as the Thomson
Reuters impact factor reveals several weaknesses in this commonly-used indicator of …

Background Citation analysis reflects the recognition a work has received in the scientific
community by its peers, and is a common method to determine 'classic'works in medical …

Measures of research productivity have become widely used for obtaining tenure, third-party
funding, and additional resources from universities. However, previous studies indicate that …

Microbiota-gut-brain (MGB) research is a fast-growing field of inquiry with important
implications for how human brain function and behaviour are understood. Researchers …